[ALUG] Re: Calendar/PIM application that allows links

[Chris G]

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 07:50:01PM +0100, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
> I think the PIM that would have - or might have - met Chris' requirement 
> reasonably well isn't available any more.  It was the old Claris Organiser 
> for OS9 and earlier.  Years ago now.
> 
> You had a calendar with appointments, notes, contacts, one or two other 
> things.  Then any one element of these could be linked to any others in some 
> simple way.  So you had a sort of ad hoc grouping of (say) a person's contact 
> details, every appointment you had with them, every note of every phone 
> conversation, and maybe the text of all correspondence.  You got to each 
> element of the set by clidking a link.  And you could have as many of these 
> bundles as you wanted.  In addition there were the usual categories.  
> 
> So Chris could have had journal entries associated with agenda items, or 
> anything else.  Snippets of code associated with a project.  Reading lists 
> from people at a given class.  Anything at all could be made into a set and 
> once you hit one, the others became available, but if you also wanted to look 
> at items by category, you could do that too.
> 
> Later on it was sold to Palm and marketed in two forms, the Windows form of 
> Palm organiser not having any of this linking functionality, but the Mac 
> version kept on with it.
> 
> It was amazing.  I kept looking for something like this too, and hoped maybe 
> Chandler might turn into it, but alas...  It may have been a functionality 
> that was too obscure for most people to bother with, but once you got used to 
> it, it was very powerful.
> 
Yes, I've spent much of today hunting around and haven't found
anything that really fits what I want.

I'm leaning towards using a wiki (which does the data and linking side
of things fairly well) and finding one that has a calendar plugin. I'm
sold on the idea of using some sort of markup language for the text
entry so that I can use a familiar editor (vile in my case, a vi
clone) to enter the text.  The basic text files are readable as they
are (especially with reStructured Text for example) and even better as
web pages.

I have Mozex installed on Firefox so I can get to use vile even with
wikis that aren't adapted to editing their files directly.

That leaves finding a wiki with a reasonable calendar plugin.

-- 
Chris Green